Transparent parallel checkpointing and migration in clusters and ClusterGrids

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-181

  Kovács, József ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Checkpoint; Cluster; Clustergrid; Condor; Graphical programming environment; Grid; Message passing; Migration; MP; Parallel; pvm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MIDDLEWARE;

CHECKPOINT; CLUSTER; CLUSTERGRID; CONDOR; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; GRID; MIGRATION; PARALLEL;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 68149132323     PISSN: 17427185     EISSN: 17427193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2009.027379     Document Type: Article

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